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Graduate Student Directory

Lilith Anne Frakes
  • Title
    • PhD student
  • Division Humanities Division
  • Department
    • History of Consciousness Department
  • Email
  • Mail Stop History Of Consciousness

Research Interests

Primatology, Animal studies, Multispecies ethnography, Environmental humanities

Biography, Education and Training

M.S. Primate Behavior and Ecology, Central Washington University

B.A. Anthropology and Comparative Literature, Stanford University

Honors, Awards and Grants

  • Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, The Humanities Institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Awarded April 2025
  • Summer Pathways Fellowship, The Humanities Institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Awarded April 2024
  • Dean’s Travel Grant, University of California, Santa Cruz, Awarded January 2024
  • Regent’s Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz, Awarded May 2024

 

Selected Publications

  • Callahan, J., & Frakes, L. (2024). Alpha and Ella: How Animal Antagonists Reflect Human Violence and Exceed Human Projections. Society & Animals (published online ahead of print 2024). https://doi.org/10.1163/15685306-bja10225

Selected Presentations

  • "Identifying paternal behavior in captive Sumatran (Pongo abelii) and hybrid orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus x abelii)." Poster presention at the 2023 American Society of Primatologists Conference, Reno, NV, USA

Teaching Interests

 

TA Experience:

HISC 137: "Why Should I Care?" (Fall 2024, UCSC)

FMST 16: "Media Histories: News and New Media" (Winter 2025, UCSC)

HISC 1: "Introduction to History of Consciousness" (Spring 2025, UCSC)